Sentence examples for past destroying from inspiring English sources

The Dreyfus affair acts as a kind of earthquake in "Remembrance of Things Past," destroying Proust's belief in a natural merger of the educated middles, mostly Jewish, and the aristocratic heights.

In 1999, New Age author V. M. Rabolu wrote in Hercolubus or Red Planet that Barnard's star is actually a planet known to the ancients as Hercolubus, which purportedly came dangerously close to Earth in the past, destroying Atlantis, and will come close to Earth again.

"To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history.

let an obsession with the past destroy our hopes for the future.

War is war, and Mother Courage's cart rumbles ever on, past destroyed cities and ruined lives.

"Of course we face troubles," said Pouria, sweat dripping from his face, as he walked past destroyed houses amid clouds of dust.

The most tentative bids to offer a hand to the wolf have, in the past, destroyed the careers of those who made them.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history... this abolition of the self demanded by Muslims was much worse than the similar colonial abolition of identity".

At a reading in London last week, he condemned what he called the "calamitous effect" of Islam and compared it to colonialism: "To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history.

"Look how much they have been through," said Sgt. First Class Larry Moore, 39, a reservist from Huntsville, Ala., as his Land Cruiser bumped along the damaged roads and past destroyed houses north of Bagram.

As the Haitian people walk past destroyed buildings, they are passing tombs filled with loved ones, strangers, and lost souls that will never be identified.